Pat Bauer ousted as minority leader by Indiana House Democrats

10:02 PM,
Jul. 26, 2012

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LAFAYETTE, Ind. - With 100 days until the next election, House Democrats fired B. Patrick Bauer on Thursday in hopes that a new leader and direction can stave off their slide into political oblivion.

Bauer, who has led House Democrats for the past decade, was rejected by the caucus, which elected state Rep. Linda Lawson of Hammond as the new minority leader. She becomes the first woman of either party to lead a caucus of the Indiana House of Representatives.

The move was, in some ways, an act of desperation by a caucus that lost 12 seats in the 2010 election and fears it will lose more in November ...